Platform Testing Analyst

U.S. Bank • Minneapolis, MN

21h • Hybrid

About The Position

At U.S. Bank, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions and enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed. We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive at every stage of your career. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One. U.S. Bank is seeking a highly effective and dynamic individual to perform testing and project support for our Foreign Exchange (FX) Line of Business in our Capital Market space. This position will help support the delivery of business needs via the Wallstreet product suite and will collaborate with internal partners to ensure efficiencies and value-added solution are properly and thoroughly tested and validated prior to any production release. Success will be measured through effective and proactive risk mitigations efforts, strong partnered approach to drive business satisfaction and effectiveness. The ideal candidate will possess a strong understanding of foreign exchange, Wall Street operations, and have experience working with Jira and Excel. This position is a hybrid role which requires working onsite 3 days or more per week at our Charlotte, NC or Minneapolis, MN location. The position is only available in Charlotte, NC and Minneapolis, MN.

Requirements

• Strong knowledge of foreign exchange operations, Wall Street practices, and payment-related processes.
• Experience with CLS (Continuous Linked Settlements), ISO 20022, Fedwire, ACH, and SWIFT payments.
• Demonstrated experience supporting Agile delivery teams, with embedded ownership of quality outcomes.
• Proficiency in JIRA and PractiTest for test management, defect tracking, and traceability.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including data analysis, reconciliation, and reporting.
• Familiarity executing or coding testing automation frameworks and ability to execute or support automated test scripts.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with high attention to detail
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills across Product, Technology, Operations, and Risk stakeholders.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver in a fast-paced, regulated Agile environment.
• Self-motivated, accountable, and comfortable operating with end-to-end ownership and risk awareness.
• Skilled in SQL, BRUNO, Postgres, and the IR360 tool.
• Utilize automation tools such as Copilot, Dev Bridge, and Copilot for GitLab.

Responsibilities

• Conduct thorough testing and validation of implemented solutions to ensure they meet the desired outcomes and adhere to project specifications.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams of Product Owners/ Product Managers and Business partners to test enhancements, understanding impact to current configuration and business partners, testing of changes, and supporting change management efforts.
• Write clear testing scripts and create workflow diagrams ensuring they accurately capture business requirements and align with project objectives.
• Support development team during testing phases to ensure business requirements have been interpreted correctly and to reduce UAT testing time.
• Attend daily scrum with team members, report and manage defects in JIRA to ensure that all issues are resolved according to guidelines and expectations.
• Work closely with the overall agile team in planning, coordinating, and implementing testing model on various phases of project.
• Monitor project progress, identify potential risks or roadblocks, and propose mitigation strategies to ensure timely delivery of project milestones.
• Collaborate with Technology to execute regression testing and integration testing in integration test environment.
• Maintain accurate documentation of testing requirements, specifications, and progress updates.
• Stay updated with industry trends, regulatory changes, and best practices related to foreign exchange and Wall Street operations.
• Provide support and guidance to team members, sharing expertise and knowledge to enhance overall project performance.
• Serve as the designated testing analyst within a First Order Agile payment team, accountable from story intake through production release.
• Attend and actively participate in daily scrums, backlog refinement, sprint planning, and retrospectives, representing testing impacts and risks.
• Conduct thorough functional, integration, regression, and user acceptance testing to validate solutions meet business requirements and technical specifications.
• Write clear and detailed test scripts and workflow diagrams that accurately reflect business processes and payment flows.
• Report, track, and manage defects in JIRA and testing evidence in PractiTet, ensuring timely resolution aligned to sprint and release expectations.
• Execute end-to-end payment processing scenarios, including initiation, validation, enrichment, routing, settlement, and reconciliation.
• Validate payment lifecycle scenarios, including straight-through processing (STP), repairs, returns, reversals, recalls, and cutoff-driven scenarios.
• Coordinate testing across multiple dependent systems to ensure upstream and downstream payment impacts are fully validated.
• Partner with Operations and Technology teams to validate operational readiness, job flows, and exception handling prior to release.
• Own UAT exit criteria and provide data-driven recommendations on production readiness.
• Support scope freeze and code freeze discipline, escalating exceptions only with appropriate risk transparency.
• Participate in post-production validation, defect triage, and root cause analysis of escaped defects.
• Identify high-value candidates for test automation, supporting improved sprint predictability and reduced manual testing effort.
• Maintain accurate documentation of testing requirements, specifications, execution results, and status updates.
• Stay current on industry trends, regulatory changes, and best practices related to foreign exchange, payments, and capital markets.
• Provide guidance and knowledge-sharing to team members to elevate overall delivery quality.

Benefits

• Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)
• Basic term and optional term life insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability
• Pregnancy disability and parental leave
• 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan
• Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)
• Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities
• Adoption assistance
• Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees